Bring Hand to The Air: Towards Universal Aerial Manipulation
Abstract: Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted the interest of researchers, industry, and the general public in many applications. Noticing that high-altitude tasks sometimes require active interaction with the environment, there have been more and more works focusing on aerial manipulation recently. Each of them has demonstrated the ability to use a specific aerial manipulator [...]
Leveraging Sense of Agency to Improve the Experience of Control Over Assistive Robots
Abstract: In an age of autonomous driving and robotics, we are increasingly engaging with robots that deploy autonomous assistance. Cognitive science and human-computer interaction literature tells us that, when we apply autonomy in assistive settings, we are often augmenting the user's sense of agency over the system. Sense of agency is a phenomenon from cognitive [...]
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